How to deploy the same web application twice on WebLogic 11g?

Question

We have developed a JEE5 web application (WAR) and running it in production under WebLogic 11g (10.3.5).

Now the same application should be deployed as separate appl

Answer 1

ServletContextListener.contextInitialized can look at the ServletContext and figure out which deployment is which

in web.xml, define a servlet context listener:

  com.path.YourServletContextListener

and then in YourServletContextListener.java, add a contextInitialized method like this:

public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce)
{
  ServletContext sc = sce.getServletContext();
  String name = sc.getContextPath();
  ...
}

my thought is that you can use that name to select from multiple data sources that you have configured. depending on how you've been deployed, you'll make a different database connection and have the correct application's data.